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Old 11-30-2007, 02:17 PM   #45
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Originally Posted by Cowperson View Post
That is unique to them just like many things are unique to us.

In Afghanistan about two years ago, a credible poll found that 95% of Afghan's believed a court was being "merciful" in giving a recent Muslim convert to Christianity the chance to renounce his new religion or face death.

That's a remarkable uniformity of thought.

What is "unique to us" is that a multi-cultural society of some tolerance will almost never have 95% of people agree on anything. Scraping together 60% is almost a miracle on most topics.

In fact, I would wager than 95% of us wouldn't even agree that execution is an excessive punishment for this lady for allowing a teddy bear to be named Mohammed.

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yep, the crazy fundamentalist are a much larger "minority" than most people over here would like to believe
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